En Avant, Messieurs!: Being a Tutor's Counsel to His PupilsJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1867 - 271 páginas |
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... feeling , and yet the bitter hostility between different sec- tions of the public , as evinced by the violent lan- guage of their antagonistic newspapers , Siècle , for instance , versus the Monde ; and you will soon understand why ...
... feeling , and yet the bitter hostility between different sec- tions of the public , as evinced by the violent lan- guage of their antagonistic newspapers , Siècle , for instance , versus the Monde ; and you will soon understand why ...
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... to our disregard of the feelings and ideas of others that the common French expression has become stereo- typed , - " C'est un Anglais ; que voulez - vous ? " You II . ON THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE . ask WHERE HAD I BEST TRAVEL ? 23.
... to our disregard of the feelings and ideas of others that the common French expression has become stereo- typed , - " C'est un Anglais ; que voulez - vous ? " You II . ON THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE . ask WHERE HAD I BEST TRAVEL ? 23.
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... feelings of their hearers it is to these perorations that one looks for the highest efforts of oratory , last im- pressions being always most important , the feelings of the speaker and his audience being ever kindled into mutual ...
... feelings of their hearers it is to these perorations that one looks for the highest efforts of oratory , last im- pressions being always most important , the feelings of the speaker and his audience being ever kindled into mutual ...
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... feelings and passions , which each possessed more or less conspicuously , and which they have clothed in words , either with the aid of simple language , or by adopting some figure of speech or peculiarity of style . I have already ...
... feelings and passions , which each possessed more or less conspicuously , and which they have clothed in words , either with the aid of simple language , or by adopting some figure of speech or peculiarity of style . I have already ...
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... feeling of humanity , every sentiment of honor . These abominable principles , and this more abominable avowal of them , demand the most decisive indignation . I call upon that right reverend and this most learned bench to vindicate the ...
... feeling of humanity , every sentiment of honor . These abominable principles , and this more abominable avowal of them , demand the most decisive indignation . I call upon that right reverend and this most learned bench to vindicate the ...
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amusement ancient army battle Brutus Cæsar character Charles Napier Cicero composition court-martial Demosthenes doubt drawing English equally essay express fact feelings foreign French German give ground guage honor hustings ideas idle India Indian mutiny instance interest knowledge labor language Latin least less lesson lord Malaprop master means ment metaphor meter military mind Napier Naples nature Nervii ness never notice novels once orator parish passion Peninsular War perfect perhaps picture play pleasure poet poetry powers principles profes profession prose regiment reply rich rich little Roman scene Scott's sentence Shakspeare similes simple society soldier speech spirit style subject-to sure Swiss guards taste tell thing thought Thucydides tion truth tumbrel Walcheren expedition Warren Hast words worth write young officer
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Página 104 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 146 - And — when I am forgotten, as I shall be ; And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of — say, I taught thee, Say, Wolsey — that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor...
Página 124 - My lords, we are called upon as members of this house, as men, as Christian men, to protest against such notions standing near the throne, polluting the ear of majesty. " That God and nature put into our hands...
Página 167 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 117 - their bluest veins to kiss' - the shadow, as it steals back from them, revealing line after line of azure undulation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting leaves of acanthus and vine, and mystical signs, all beginning and ending in the Cross; and above them, in the broad archivolts, a continuous chain of language and of...
Página 117 - ... delicate as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches, all twined together into an endless network of buds and plumes ; and, in the midst of it, the solemn forms of angels, sceptred, and robed to the feet, and leaning to each other across the gates,' their figures indistinct among the gleaming of the golden ground through the leaves beside them, interrupted and dim, like the morning...
Página 104 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Página 122 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Página 188 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him ; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Página 116 - ... a multitude of pillars and white domes, clustered into a long low pyramid of coloured light ; a treasure-heap, it seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster, clear as amber and delicate as ivory...